I could have rated Hundreds of Beavers anything and it’d have been am accurate enough appraisal. I haven’t seen something so random and intentional in a long time. Whatever they were trying to make, they made it. I am simply … Continue reading
If you want to watch at torrid, florid, overwrought romance where the guy rends his shirt to expose his passion, crying and scowling and sneering at his one true love, then maybe The Tearsmith is the earnest, overly-serious red-blooded Harlequin … Continue reading
You’ll Never Find Me is a Shudder original that had me, then lost me, then found me again, and ultimately lost me. It’s so well-crafted on a visual and audible front that I’m actively annoyed it felt it needed to … Continue reading
Remember when Ghostbusters was a comedy? I do. Good times. Well, here we are with another Ghostbusters sequel that doesn’t quite get it. The original two ghostbusters films took its supernatural backstories and villains seriously… it was the characters that … Continue reading
Jonah is a sci-fi (or sci-fi adjacent) film with an interesting – if not overly unique – idea. It’s about the investigation of claims of alien abduction. In this case, a mother says her child was taken briefly by aliens … Continue reading
Parallel is a low ambition, low-fi sci-fi film about parallel worlds… the whole multiverse open to them and all they could put together was a couple of people wandering through the woods. But, hey, maybe you make do with what … Continue reading
History of Evil is a grab bag of grounded near future paranoia speculative fiction, southern gothic horror, haunted houses, magical realism, male fragility, and, I dunno, evil Lego bricks (sorry, wrong movie). It’s kind of a thematic and plot hodge-podge… … Continue reading
Not entirely sure why I hit play on this Amazon Prime video… experiment? Jennifer Lopez marketing push? Musical? Extended Music Video? Vanity project? I kinda sorta like J. Lo and I heard it was bonkers… and only an hour long… … Continue reading
Founders Day is often a tedious slog of a slasher film that I actively begrudge admit some quality moments in its final act. Moments the rest of the film absolutely does not earn and I barely can recommend the film… … Continue reading
Lift is… a marginal Netflix international thriller that you’ve seen – or skipped – before. This time it’s a heist film but it might as well have been a spy thriller or roll the dice for a similar genre. It … Continue reading